Always Lowlifes, Always
Ok, this one isn’t a police blot, but I thought you guys would find it interesting:
Wal-Mart tops local police calls, sheriff’s office finds
Wal-Mart isn’t just the number-one retailer in the universe. It also leads the way in calls for help to local police.
No west-county property generates more calls-for-service to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office than Wal-Mart on Northeast Highway 99, according to a sheriff’s report.
And beating out the entire county for police calls to any “retail, commercial or residential development” is the Wal-Mart retail complex the anchor store and its satellite storefronts and fast-food restaurants at the intersection of Mill Plain Boulevard and Interstate 205.
n “Wal-Mart consistently ranks among the top 10 locations locally generating calls for law enforcement service.”
• The Mill Plain Wal-Mart, 221 N.E. 104th Ave., generated 490 calls for service in 2005.
• The Hazel Dell Wal-Mart, 9000 N.E. Highway 99, generated 479 calls.
• There were 112 arrests made at the Hazel Dell Wal-Mart in 2005. Fifty-three of those people went straight to jail. Most of the rest were cited and released with a future court date.
Read the whole thing in The Columbian
May 30th, 2006 at 5:55 am
*33% of the arrests were made as result of fighting over parking spots
*27 % were from knock-down tramplings during the NASCAR Christmas ornament clearance
*19% were from hit-and-run scooter attacks in the snack aisle
*18% were from shoplifting; most items stolen were dry dog food, rib eye steaks, Budweiser beer, Bass fishing equipment, condoms, and a 56″ inch wide screen tv. (The latter actually was shoplifted–out thru the front door–at one of my local Wally Worlds)
*The remaining arrests were for various infractions, from stealing toys from the vending machines, smoking in the maternity department, and giving birth in the womens restroom without a permit.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Good one Ber..LMAO
May 30th, 2006 at 8:00 am
You have to ask the question…Why steal from Wal-Mart?
May 30th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Why not steal from Walmart? Based on the Hazel Dell arrests, 75% of offenders walk. That’s not bad odds.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Ber, you’ve almost got this one nailed. The only problem is the location specific choices. These particular Wal-Mart’s are in the Portland, OR area. So, instead of NASCAR (cause it really IS just a southern sport) it’s either 1976 JailBlazer’s Championship memorabilia, or SeaChicken Super Bowl “loser” gear. And it wasn’t bass fishing stuff, it was chinook rigs, Power Bait, flannel shirts and cork boots.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:17 am
C’mon, those stores are in Vancouver, WA; not Portland; people north of the Columbia are just a little bit dumber (not to mention that they can’t drive worth sh*t…
May 30th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Seems to me that Walmart is performing yet another community service. They have found a way to gather the low-lives in one place and make it easier for the police to track them down. Perhaps they should open a small police station/jail in the Walmart itself. You know, between the photo shop and the dry ice machine. The police would not only be on site, but Walmart could start a rather loocrative bail bonds business.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:42 am
olde, you know as well as I do that the Portland/Vancouver area are one and the same. You are right, though, in that they can’t drive for sh*t there. I’d like to know who wrote their driver’s ed curricula for the state thirty years ago — I don’t know how else to explain an entire state population that drives in the left lane — always, period — no matter the situation or their speed relative to anyone else on the road.
May 30th, 2006 at 10:27 am
The Wally World in our town actually has a police sub station and interigation room, plus special parking for the law! Funny when you think how Wally World actually steals from small businesses…by running them out of business. Opps double standards there…
May 30th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
That’s too funny, ITS. I ws only making stuff up when I suggested a police station. Do the cops wear badges with smiley faces on them? I suppose there is a reciprical arrangement where the police buy guns from the sporting goods department, too.
May 30th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
I was reading somewhere just recently that in a town called HERCULES, CALIFORNIA they would not give permission for a Walmart because of the “class of people it attracts” .
May 30th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
LOl Ber good one . I however ,like to shop at Wal-Mart , you cannot beat the low prices. I don’t think of myself as low class but, I figure why pay more if you don’t have to? Especially if you have a big family…
May 30th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
If the local CPS had an agent watching as customers go thru the doors at Walmart, there’d be a child abuse arrest every 5 minutes. What do people think they’re proving by screaming and yanking their kids around in public? I called the cops on a woman once who picked up a 3 or 4 year old girl by her hair and shook her till she screamed. Very rarely do I ever see this kind of behavior anyplace else than Walmart. Yes, I shop at Walmart, but only when I have no other choice, or if I only need one or two things. I can’t spend more than a half hour in the place without getting angry.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I’m with you Ber. My blood pressure raises 50 pts everytime I pull into a walmart parking lot. You’ve got to wonder, if these people are doing this to their kids in public what are they doing to them at home? And I just love the women who take their little ones shopping when it is their nap time, its no wonder the kid is screaming its obvious they are tired and these women scream at them which it makes things worse. They have some real Parent of the year nominees in wally world.
May 31st, 2006 at 12:04 am
Good 1 Berlincoln……….lol
Ya Its……The Walmart does run some small businesses out of business. I do ask my better half & the kids not to go there to shop, but low and behold, in they come with a Walmart bag again. But eh…what’s a guy to do? I have buddies telling me not to shop there and heck, to be honest, they’ve convinced me, but I don’t have the faintest idea how to stop someone else from doing it besides a lobotomy or yanking the checkbook. GO Figure!
May 31st, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Iron I would Hope they would even give them a discount … the beauty of this place is that they can also gert Dounughts in variety of places in the store…anywhere from aisle 3 in the food section to the snack bar where they can get coffee with that dougnut, while waiting for the big nab. Did anyone hear about the walmart store where actual employees were doing the shop lifting LOLOL guess it’s true that Walmart’s doesn’t pay it’s workers enough … Hey lets go down to wally world and pick up that sexy greeter!!!! There was one WW that actually had a singles night where singles could go shop and pick someone up….Hmmmm I’ll take my chances on line thank you LOLOLOLOL
May 31st, 2006 at 8:20 pm
I am with you Ber and mhol160, I cannnot take it when I see parents ranting and raving at their kids in the store . I try and do my shopping alone if I can but, if I need to bring my four year old son with me I tell him to behave himself while we are in the store shopping and for the most part hwe does. I think it is all in the partenting skills and how you raise your kids. Some people have no clue how to handle children and for the ones who yell and scream and beat their kids in the store should leave their kids home if their children cannot behave themselves in public .
May 31st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
What I can’t understand is when both parents (if the children would be so lucky) shop with the kids…why couldn’t one of the parents stay home with the kids while the other shops? Especially at 10 at night.
June 1st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
What! And let their spouse loose alone with the check book?!!